Talk:Scooby-Doo (character)
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[edit] Impostor Scooby
I was thinking that there should be an article of some sort on the old plot device where a bad guy, secondary character or guest star impersonates the protagonist of a story or show. Hanna-Barbera did a lot of that, including with Scooby, as I wrote...
Like several other H-B characters, Scooby-Doo has been impersonated on more than one occasion. In the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You episode "Never Ape an Ape Man," the Ape Man (the episode's villain) puts on a latex mask of Scooby-Doo to play the old "mirror" gag, and then near the end of the episode, Shaggy briefly wears the Scooby-Doo mask. Then in an episode of The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show entitled "Scooby's Gold Medal Gambit," the Chameleon (not to be confused with the Spider-Man villain) dons a Scooby-Doo costume and mask and perfectly imitates Scooby's voice in order to try and steal Scooby's olympic trophies. He is unmasked after the Chameleon talks in his real voice claiming how he hates Scooby's favorite food, Worcestershire Sauce. Then on the What's New, Scooby-Doo? episode "A Scooby-Doo Valentine," former N'Sync member J.C. Chasez dresses up in a full Scooby-Doo mask and suit, along with four extras portraying the human gang, to frame Mystery Inc.
No offense to fans of J.C!
[edit] Reinsertion of the Great Dane picture
I reinserted the image of the Great Dane. The picture gives an opportunity to compare the visual attributes of the cartoon character to a real Great Dane. If you object to the image, please change it instead of removing it. --Bensin 23:47, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
- I have to say, I agree with the previous editor who removed the picture, as it's out of place here. The Great Dane article is linked to in the first section, so if readers are interested in comparisons they can see plenty of photographs there. Generally images should be directly related to the subject of an article, such as screenshots, promo pictures, etc. Having a photograph of a Great Dane in this article would be like having an image of a lion in The Lion King article, or a white-tailed deer in Bambi, and so on. Masaruemoto 02:54, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
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- Fair enough! But I do think that even images that are indirectly related to the subject can earn a place, even if mostly to improve the layout and make the article more reader-friendly. Images can sometimes aid a reader to remember what they've read. --Bensin 21:58, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] No images?
Why so? —May the Edit be with you, always. (T-borg) (drop me a line) 12:40, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Scooby-Doo eats live sandwich.JPG
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BetacommandBot 11:28, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Full name
Isn't his full name me Scoobert Dooby "Dooby" Doo—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.190.88.244 (talk)
- We would need to demonstrate that name was more than a single-episode bit or a nickname. A fictional character's correct name is the name they are known by in the work. To say the character must have a different, "full" name is in-universe, as if this were a real person who couldn't possibly have been given the legal name Scooby-Doo. Since this is a work of fiction, we would need to know what the significance of the "full" name was, i.e. something a writer made up for a single episode, something the producers always considered his real name but seldom used, something routinely identified in the show as his "full name", something used for the short-running Professer Scoobert Doo's Gradooate School of Mystery. Just stating another name is the character's proper/real/full name is unencyclopedic. / edg ☺ ☭ 02:17, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
